Talk:Atlantic hurricane season

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Merge?

Given how short this is, and how nice it would be to have the content there, what if this was merged to List of Atlantic hurricane seasons? --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 22:04, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that a merger would probably make for stronger articles. Chris857 (talk) 02:44, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed so I merged it. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 15:58, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How does this merger make any sense? Atlantic hurricane season is the proper term, not "List of". I'm reverting and moving the conversation to the project page. Thegreatdr (talk) 18:39, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Units for "Damage (USD)"

There is no information regarding what year's dollars are stated here. Does anyone know? Are they all the same, or is each for that particular year? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flainnnm (talk • contribs) 14:11, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I would hope and i believe that it is the original years damage.Jason Rees (talk) 18:29, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have just been wondering the same thing. There is still no resolution of this question (Hopes expressed by Jason Rees don't really help! :-( ). I don't mind if they are "original years" or inflation-adjusted to a baseline, but it is important to state this somewhere. Who compiled the table? Hmm. It shouldn't be too hard to find some original documentation to confirm this for one or two key examples in the time-series. I just did a very quick sample by using links back to the individual hurricanes and/or complete years and then scanning the text for the word "damage". It's not pretty I'm afraid. For 1973, the table reports $18M but the total of the numbers reported for all storms in the article on the 1973 Hurricane Season is $28M! For 1987, the table reports $73M, but the article for Emily reports $80.3M -- and there were several other hurricanes that year. The table 1987_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Season_effects reports a total of $90M. I think fixing this is a project--and I am sure I don't want to tackle it alone! I guess I could add a note to say that all USD values are unadjusted for inflation Dtprice (talk) 18:21, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Dtprice: If i maybe able to revise/update my comment from four years ago: The project uses damages which at the time and are not inflated, however, as article quality has gotten better, these damage totals have been revised with more totals found/better sources. However, these revisions have not nesscerialy hit other articles, such as this one or Retired Atlantic hurricane names. The other question we would have to ask is about how to source the damage totals on this page, bearing in mind that we are not allowed to cite Wiki.Jason Rees (talk) 23:53, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Jason Rees: I have added notes at the top of the lists for the 1900s and the 2000s which state that damage estimates in USD are "contemporaneous". Is this clear enough? Regarding sourcing damage totals, surely each total that has been sourced from info presented on the wiki page for a given year's hurricane season could be shown as a wiki link? The ultimate external sources will be cited there. I am assuming that every year's hurricane season has its own page? It would be good to work on this page by page and insert the links when each has been checked. This might encourage others to help with the task! Dtprice (talk) 11:08, 12 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Jason Rees: OK. I have inserted a link in the Damage USD field for 1987. What do you think? Dtprice (talk) 11:15, 12 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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South Atlantic Tropical Cyclones

The tropical cyclone tracks picture missed South Atlantic Tropical Cyclones like Hurricane Catarina. 32ieww (talk) 21:39, 30 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The South Atlantic is considered a seperate basin to the North Atlantic and therefore any TC's down there, are not a part of the Atlantic hurricane season which only applies to NHEM. The same goes for the Pacific and Indian Oceans :)Jason Rees (talk) 22:33, 30 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]